Where to for Samba4?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 08:36 +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
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> Andrew Morgan schrieb:
> > I was under the impression that Samba4 would be the next version of
> > Samba. After reading this discussion, it almost sounds like there will
> > be 2 different kinds of Samba:
> > 
> >   Samba Active Directory Services - Samba4
> >   Samba File and Print Services - Samba3
> > 
> > I don't care either way so long as they are both maintained, but was
> > that the intention?  :)
> 
> I really think the final samba4 release should support basicly the same
> features as samba3. That means samba4 should be a good file and print
> server! Maybe not supporting all smb.conf options from samba3, but it
> have to have the same or better quality. Samba4 should support
> the DC, MEMBER and STANDALONE roles. Also samba4 should provide a
> really working winbind which provides compatible features/protocols as
> samba3.
> 
> So the final Samba4 should be able to replace Samba3.
> But I think it would be a good idea to have a 'samba4dc'
> project which can run parallel to samba3 and just provides
> domain controller features (without DRSUAPI replication).
> 
> I don't think it would be a good idea to name a release
> "samba 4.0.0" which can't replace any samba 3.x.x release.

But how do we get there?  That's the point I'm trying to make - who can
help us get there?

I don't share your view that we must be a print server to be Samba 4.0.0
- but perhaps that's just because I can't see how we can achieve that
goal.  

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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